The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1931, Page 1

Free Rent, Gas, Electric WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Cc entral (Section of the Communist International) NEO —=— Vol. VIII, No. 254 Entered as second-class mat: at New York, N, Y., under the ‘ter at the Pont NEW YORK THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1931 fasuet Party U.S.A. Y $150.00 Cash Winter Relief! Join the Unemployed Councils and Build Block Committees In Your Neighborhoods CITY EDITION = = Price 3 Cents MASS PICKETNG SPRE A DS IN LAWRENCE GENE R “The Chinese Now Understand” “The Chinese now undggstand that the United States has not been in the least intervening on their behalf—deciding that they were right and the Japanese wrong.”—N. Y. Times editorial, Oct. 21. Beautiful! Magnificent! All the imperialist robbers and looters of China, particularly the most insistent and jealous two, American imper- jalism and Japanese imperialism, have kissed and made up—at least in appearances, deceitful appearances. Nobody is left dissatisfied but 400,000,000 Chinese. The toiling masses of China are not consulted. Their feudal militarists and bourgeois poli- a ticians are already trained to accept anything decreed by the imperialist | overlords. : Japan withdraws its objections to the U. S. sitting at Geneva, and Stimson withdraws U. S. objections to Japanese troops’ occupying Man- churia. Could anything be more delightful? From such a “settlement” the N. Y. Times can draw any number of pipe dreams: “The League has established anew its moral prestige...” And— “The Chinese now understand’—that America was totaly uncon- cerned about Japan looting China, so long as America is allowed to con- tinue the. looting it had long ago begun. The Japanese are willing to “cooperate and avoid ruinous competition between the South Manchurian railway and other railroads in Man- | et ‘And since those OTHER RAILROADS are financed by Wall |°! the Interstate Commerce Commis- churia.” Street, fhe thing can be arranged—maybe. How did this marvel come about? Not through the League of Nations! Nor the Kellogg Pact! No, indeed! But because of situations such as that “mob” of students who demonstrated at Nanking Tuesday, demanding the “restoration of cordial relations with Soviet Russia” and what's more—“the rights of mass move- ments to the general populace.” ‘The imperialists fear that the Chinese masses will “get out of hand.” And further, the overwhelming desire of all imperialisms, shown in their SECRET MEETINGS, the intrigue to keep the Soviet Union from parti- cipating as a signer of the Kellogg Pact and their anxiety to plant them- selves in Manchuria with guns pointed at the Soviet frontier, is to en- circle the Soviet in preparation for common armed intervention. Yes, the Chinese’masses “now understand” that their own Red Army and Soviet power and not America nor America’s lackey Nanking gov- ernment, must be their means of national liberation! And American workers, too, should “now understand” that the same wish for imper- ialist loot that brings even a doubtful “agreement” on China, is bringing the danger of war on the Soviet Union! Protest the loot. of China! Defend the Soviet Union! “Rampant Ruffianism” T’S what the News-Tribune of Duluth says about the Communists, because we organize the unemployed and employed together to de- mand that the starving jobless be fed at the expense of the rich. Listen to ’e! “They (meaning us Communists—Editor) should know that all of- ficers are bound to obey the law and that they have no power to hand over bundles of cash to intruders.” Well, say! These “intruders” who are jobless now built all the cities, sowed and harvested all the food, wove all the cloth and filled all the pockets of the rich! As to the power of officers to “hand over bundles of cash,” they do it for the Oliver Mining Company, the Steel Trust, the railroad thieves, Andy Mellon's aluminum trust, etc. “They must beware,” says the News-Tribune editor. better’ beware! The workers are getting sore about it! ‘ue workers who are yet employed are getting sore enough to or- ganize and strike against wage cuts and mass dismissals! To unite with the unemployed against the “stagger plan” of wage cuts, and for unem- ployment insurance at full wages, paid by. the bosses, administered by 9 the workers! And all will support the National Hunger March demands for Winter Relief to jobless workers and destitute farmers! Yes, “they” had What Are YOU Doing for the National Hunger March? This department, a calendar list of events and actions in connection with the National Hunger March to Washington, will be a daily feture in the Daily Worker until the demonstration in the capital Dec. 7 and | the return of the 1,200 delegates to their home cities. Each district will be held responsible for the news in its jurisdiction. Each district is expected and will be required to give a daily answer | te the question which heads this department. 1.. Cleveland, Ohio—Two thousand demonstrated at the court house | | at the end of the Cuyahoga County Hunger March Friday, held during a rain storm. The county commissioners were forced to hear them after once refusing. Send information on the six public hearingse planned in Cleveland! 2. New Kensington steel workers and miners crashed through police | and firemen’s barricades, marched into a hall past the machine guns of state police and held a rousing unemployment conference, Oct. 19. The Westmoreland County hunger march is scheduled to take place just before Pinchot’s special legislature session, 3. Philadelphia has arranged three public hearings., where? Send this information. 4. Chicago, Pittsburgh Buffalo and Boston are arranging public hearings. When and where? Furnish the names of the halls and the street addresses 5. No definite information in regard to the public hearings has been furnished as yet by New York, Detroit, San Francisco, Seattle, New Haven, Birmingham, Kansas City St. Paul, Charlotte, N. C. Send at once a short report on our plans. 6. Kansas Clty, Mo—Lhe City Council Unemployed Committee, elected at the Hunger March Conference Oct. 11 arranged a city tag day for Oct, 18 to help fniance the State Hunger March to Jefferson City on Oct. 24. What was the result? Rush in a report. 7. Duluth City Hunger March, Oct. 26. Press calling for violent suppression of Unemployed Council meetings. 8 Michigan—Preliminary march in Oakland County attacked by police and broken up after long battle. Workers showing tremendous interest, enthusiasm and militancy. 9. Baltimore, Mr.—Protest mass meeting at City Hall, Oct. 23 against sentencing to jail of four workers for blocking eviction of unemployed Negro. i Avella, Pa.~Committee of 30 from Unemployed Council will resent demands for' rellef to city government Oct. 22. 11, Buffalo—Unemployed Council calls demonstration at City Coun- cil for immediate relief on Oct. 26 at 2 p.m. 12, Sacramento, Calif—After a long struggle the Unemployed Coun- efl won the right to use Oak Park (Municipal) Auditorium for a mass When and FOSTER IN | WARNING AT R.R. SLASHES ILC.C. Decision Is a) Step to Pay Cut for | 1,200,000 Men Move to Help Pay Cuts NEW YORK.—Warning the 1,200,- | that the next step after the decision | sion of freight rates is a wage slash for the railroad men, William Z. Fos- | ter, secretary of the Trade Union | Unity League, issued a call to all Must Plan Strike Now Brotherhood Fakers In | 000 railroad workers in the country | Refute Lies of German Boss Press| jOn Soviet Finances| | (Cable by Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Oct. 21.— Germania, the official organ of the Centre | Catholic Party, today publishes a ‘sensational article declaring that | the Soviet Union intends to stop | | foreign payments owing to acute financial difficulties. This article | bristles with numerous easily re-| futed lies, These official declara- | tions and rumors are absolutely without foundation. The Soviet finances are in the best order and the gold store is steadily increas- ing and all undertakings are being fulfilled with absolute punctuality. FASCIST TERROR IN FREE STATE ‘Make Brutal Attack on Workers | railroad workers to prepare for a | fight against wage cuts, ‘The threatened wage cuts on the railroads follows the action of the |government body, the Interstate ;Commerce Commission, which “re- |fused” a 15 per cent rate increase. | All this had been worked out before, the object being to lay the ground for |@ wage cut. The LC.C., at the same |time, proposed a greater concentra- | tion of the railroads, in the hands of |@ few leading capitalists, and a “pool- jing” of the profits so that the big | railroad magnates could get a great- er share. The direct outcome will be a vi- cious attack against the workers. The New York Evening Post interviewing leading railroad bosses said they fa- vored immediate wage slashes. The Post declared after the I.C.C. deci- sion: “Reduction of wages of railroad employéss was predicted by some railroad men today as a result of the decision of the Interstate Com- | merce Commission offering the car- riers about one-quarter of the rate | relief asked.” Calling on all railroad workers im- mediately to prepare strike action, William Z. Foster, secretary of the T.U.U.L. issued the following state- | ment: “The partial refusal by the In- terstate Commerce Commission of the 5 per cent freight rate increase demanded by the railroads is a signal for the railroad companies to cut wages. The cut by the U.S. Steel and other big corporations have cleared the way for reductions on the railroads. The railroad union leaders and the A. F. of L. will not only not make resistance to these cuts but will help the boss- es put them over. The bureaucrats will talk against the ents as usual, but will use all their power to force the rank and file to submit to “ar- birtation” under the Watson-Par- ker Act. The workers, already fac- ing mass unemployment, intoler- able speed-up, etc., will fight! The National Railroad Workers Indus- trial League, with the support of the Trade Union Unity League, will organize these masses to strike against the threatening wage cuts, which the railroad magnates hope | te put across with the united front || of government, bosses and A. F. of L. leaders.” PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Oct. 21.— Frank Statkeiwicz, unemployed and doomed to a lingering death from tuberculosis because of lack of money with which to carry out the cure of “good food and sunshine,” shot him- self and died while his wife was tem- porarily away from his bedside. | (-*s => Inprecorr) DUBLiN, Oct. 221—The compos!i- | tion of a military tribunal to operate | under the Public Safety Act was an- nounced and includes five high of- ficers of the Irish Free State. Twelve organizations were proclaimed un- lawful, including the Workers Rev- | olutionary groups, Friends of the Soviet Union, International Red Aid, the Working Farmers’ Committee, the Workers’ Research Bureau and the Workers’ Defense Corps. ‘The tribunal begins work tomorrow on prisoners jailed for offenses prior to | the passage of the act. Membership in the ‘proscribed or- ganizations entail heavy penalties. Yesterday huge mass meetings were held throughout the country, protest- ing against this terror and register- ing determination to continue to in- tensify the struggle. German Fascists Continue Murder of Braunschwig Workers (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Oct. 21. — The fascist Minister of Interior of Braunschweig suppressed the socialist daily “Volks freund” for eight weeks under the emergency decree as a result of the publication of reports attacking the authorities in connection with the Braunschweig bloodbath Saturday. The socialists are beside themselves at receiving a dose of their own medicine. The “Vorwaerts” is fum- ing. On Monday the fascists murdered the third worker of Braunschweig, seventeen-year-old Wilhelm Rhode, by throwing his body onto a railway line over a ‘bridge in order to create the impression that this worker was killed by a train. However, the body was found before the train passed. Rush Through BULLETIN SNOW HILL, Oct. 20.—Orphan Jones, 60-year-old Negro farm hand, was indicted here yesterday in a vicious lynch atmosphere. Only after the indictment was he permitted to consult with the at- torney engaged for him by the In- ternational Labor Defense. During the interview with the attorney, a Policeman was found concealed in @ cupboard\in the room. After the indictment, Jones was Pittsburgh Di PITTSBURGH, Pa, (By Mail)— One hundred delegates coming from twenty steel towns and elected by workers in 25 of the largest steel plants met Sunday, Oct. 18, at the Pittsburgh District Conference of the Metal Workers Industrial League. ‘The conference was called for the purpose of consolidating the recent membership gains and to build the league on a new branch basis in preparation for strike struggles against wage-cuts and worsening meeting for relief on Oct. 25. ALL DISTRICTS! share of the million special Send in your order for your four-page Hunger March paper! conditions in the steel industry. Following an organizational report by J. Meldin, acting national - tary of the M. W. L Ly, ® strict Steel Conference Plans Struggle of organization was adopted which called for an immediate registration of the district and the organization of department groups. All the de- partment groups will compose the mill branch, Each group will elect a department delegate to attend every mill branch executive meeting to report on the group activities and to get instructions in regard to fur- ther work. The department dele- gates are actually the organizers and are responsible for collection. of dues, etc. All the mill branches in a city will form the city local and each U. $.- JAPAN Negro, Denying Him Counsel “AGREE” ON LOOTING | Manchuria Will Be) Base for Attack On Soviet Union Kellogg Pact Used 20,000 Students In Nanking Protest WallStreet Secretary of State | Stimson is “now supporting the Jap- anese demand for no fixed date of | withdrawal of troops from Manchu- | ria,” according to the capitalist press, This means that the imperialist rob- | bers are trying to work out a tenta- tive agreement todivide the spoils and @ united front in Manchuria against the Soviet Union. The latest reports in the capitalist press indicate that the Japanese are determined to set up an “indepen- dent” Manchurian republic. This in- dependent republic will be the center of the war preparations for the at- tack on the Soviet Union. While secret negotiations were go- ing on for the division of the spoils in China and the establishment of a | point of attack against the Soviet Union, Stimson sent sham notes to Japan and China “recalling to them their obligations to refrain from war in Manchuria under the Kellogg an- ti-war pact.” As these negotiations are going on all of the delegates in Geneva “were Prepared all day to be summoned to a secret meéting.” This. secret meeting will be for the purposes of giving the League of Nation’s official blessing to the imperialist agreement for the division of China and for the united front attack against the So- viet Union. Another proposal of the imperialists’ délegates is to postpone thelr meeting for a month and then to meet in Paris. The results of the Japanese impe- rialist invasion of Chiria are already stated by the capitalist press. William Philip Sims of the Scripps-Howard papers summarized the results as follows: “1, Manchurian independence, as desired by Tokio, well on its way to accomplishment. “2, A vastly strengthen hold on Manchuria, a free hand to deal with the local “government” as the Mikado sees fit and a settlement after Japan's liking of the scores of railway, mining and other conces- sion disputes now outstanding. “3. A weakened, if not perma- nently crippled Kellogg pact. “4, Universal disillusionment over (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Indictment of taken to Cambridge. A mob of rich farmers is now marching on that town with the openly expressed purpose of lynching Jones. In_Berlin, 2 town near here, a lynch. mob has been organized against the Negro population. Four Negroes have been beaten up and the terror is still continuing. The authorities are preparing to rush through the “trial” of Jones in the midst of this lynch tertor. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) WDonald Government Jails Six Communist Party Candidates (Cable By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Oct. 21.—Wilkinson, the | 7th Ave. Downtown:. Friday, Oct. 2nd Ave, of the Communist Party, will Tom Johnson, member of Bill Dunne, editor of the at 8pm. J. Louis Engdahl. announced: Rally in large masses! members of your organization. Defend the Soviet Union! |Protest the War Against the Protest the Bloody Invasion of Manchuria! | | Smash American, Japanese and League of Nations plots | for world war! Smash imperialist intervention plot against | Soviet Union! Support Chinese revolution! Demand hands | off Chinese Soviets! Join the demonstration in your section. | Harlem, Thursday, Oct. 22nd, 8:30 Earl Browder, and others. Prospect and Longwood Ave., Chinese People! | p- m., 137th St. and 23rd, 8:30 at 10th St- and| William W. Weinstone. J- Louis Engdahl, secretary of the International Labor | Defense, will speak at Myrtle Ave. and Navy St., Brooklyn, |Saturday, Oct. 24, at 8:30 p. m- I. Amter, District Organizer of the New York District speak at an open air meeting at Columbus Circle, Monday, Oct. 26, at 9 p- m. the Central Committee of the, Communist Party, will speak at Pitkin and Stone Ave., Brooklyn, on Oct. 28, at 8:30 p. m- Daily Worker, will speak at | Bronx, Saturday, Oct. 31, Williamsburgh:—Saturday, October 24, at 8:30 p, m.— | Clark and Fulton Streets, Boro Hall, Brook] lyn, Main speaker | South Brooklyn:—Thursday, October 29,-at 8 p. m.— 50th St. and 5th Ave. Main speaker Carl Brodsky: Newark, N. J.:—Thursday, October 29, at 5 p- m.—Mil- itary Park. Main speaker, Juliet Stuart. Poyntz. Meeting places in other sections of the city will be | | Bring your shopmates, and | Down with the bloody Kuo- mintang Government, agent of Yankee imperialism. Show your solidarity with Chinese and Japanese toiling masses. Scottsboro Parents Again Denounce NAACP Leaders Re-state Their Choice of - Militant Defense | Policy of the International Labor Defense CHATTANOOGA, Oct. 18~—In a Statement today, parents and rela-j| tives of the 9 innocent Scottsboro Negro boys again denounce the at- tempts of the leaders of the N. A. A. C. P. to disrupt the mass defense movement which alone can free the boys and smash the legal lynch ver- dict which last April condemned 8 of the boys to burn in the electric chair of a framed-up charge of rape. | Supporting the attempt of the Ala- bama boss lynchers to burn the boys, | the leaders of the N. A. A. C. P. have | persistently attacked the organiza- tions defending the boys and the mass defense movement of millions | of white and Negro workers through- | out the world. The N. A. A. C. P. misleaders have impudently denied the right of the boys and their pa- rents to decide the defense policy| and have frantically tried to substi- tute their traitorous, hat-in-hand program for the militant defense policy of the International Labor Defense, an organization of Negro! and white -workers, which engaged | George W. Chamlee as its chief of counsel, In their latest repudiation of the N. A. A. C. P. traitors, the parents and relatives of the boys declare: “We employed George W. Cham- lee former Attorney General, as attorney to defend the Scottsboro boys and he has entire control of that case, and the National Asso- elation for the Advancement of Colored People has been advised to keep out of the case as its serv- ices were not desired, All the parents and next to kin of the Scottsboro boys have jointly em- ployed Mr. Chamlee and we have not employed anyone connected with the N. A. A. C. P. in this case. Mr. Chamlee’s employment was (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Ohio Conference Demands Release of Tom Mooney YOUNGSTOWN, Oct. 21.—Twen-| ty-six,delegates from 16 working class organizations were present at a Unit-| ed Front Mooney-Harlan-Scottsboro | conference held here last Friday at| the Ukrainian Hall. Among the or- ganizations sending delegates were! the Youngstown Printing Pressmen of the A. F. of L., local 476 of the Painters, Decorators of America of printer of the London Daily Worker, ‘was sentenced today to nine months’ imprisonment on charges of incite- ment to mutiny (for the reports Printed by the Daily Worker about the mutiny of the sailors of the At- lantic fleet at Invergordon in Sep- tember). ‘The Communist Party candidate for Birmingham in the coming elec- tions and another Communist were arrested today on the charge of in- iting to riot following mass demon- atrations last night. Six Communist the A. F. of L, five groups of the Metal Workers Industrial League, two shop units of the Communist Party. The rank and file members of the A. F. of L. locals elected delegates over the heads of their bureaucratic lead- ership. ‘The conference unantmously voted to send protest resolutions to the gov- ernors of California, Alabama, Ken- | tucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania | and Ohio, demanding the release of | Mooney and Billings the Scottsboro candidates for parliament are now under arrest, Eugene Williams and Tom Zema. A temporary executive of nine was elected to call an enlarged confer- ence for November 9, and to push ar- rangements for the Tag Days on No- vember 13 and 14, se WARREN, O., Oct. 21—A confer- ence for the release of Mooney, the Scottsboro boys, the Harlan miners and other class war prisoners was held here last Sunday. Twenty-five delegates from 50 organizations of trade unions, workers’ clubs and fra~ ternal bodies were present. Resolutions were adopted protest- ing the continued imprisonment of Tom Mooney, whose innocence not even the bosses deny, and the murder frame-up against the nine Scottsboro boys, the Harlan miners, etc, An Executive Committee of 15 was elected. It will make arrangements for an open air demonstration at the Court House Sq. this Saturday, Octo- ber 24, and for Tag Days on Maven | - 2 STRIKE Workers! Onto the Streets 25,000 FIGHT es to Demonstrate in Masses Against Imperialist War! STUBBORNLY AGAINST CUTS Demand Release of Wm. Murdoch and Edith Berkman Fight Reign of Terror 'UTW Meets With Gov. Ely Planning Betrayal LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct; 21— Twenty-five Young Pioneers, children | of textile strikers, led a picket line {of 600 at Prospect Mill today. .They carried banners calling on the work- ers to join the mass picketing; to unify their ranks and strengthen the rank and file strike committe, and to condusct a finish fight against the wage cut. The cops took some the the vigns j away, Thousands massed at the Wood Mill, ‘The picket lines were better or- | ganized than on Monday. Four hun- dred picketed the Washington Mil]. | When. two of the strikers arrived wearing A. F. of L. arm-bands, the | Strikers demanded that they take the | Signs off, and to look as the other strikers did. They took off their bedees and then disappeared. ‘The intention of the A. F. of L. is | not to picket but to display a few of their signs so as to make the ap- | pearance of the A. F. of L. leading the picket line. Eight hundred’ picketed at the Ar- lington mill. After last night's at- tack, the police kept the line away from the mill and made the strikers Picket across the street. One group of workers crossed over in front of the mi]l and were attacked. Mass pick- eting {s going on at all other mifis. It is reported among the strikers that the A. F. of L. favors a commit- | tee which will investigate the books | of the Arlington Mill, and if they |find the company is not making money they will recommend the | workers must accept the wage cut, | it they Jike it or not. The American Woolen Co. has admitted that it fakes its profit figures to fool the workers, | and the whole plan is used to help the bosses put over the wage cut. The arbitration committee is still holding secret meetings and attempt- ing in every way to put over a ke- | trayal of the 25,000 Lawrence strikers, LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 21.—As mass picketing spreads here, invol- ving thousands more in a determined fight against wage-cuts, the govern- ment forces, aided by the A. F. of L. fakers and the United Textile Work- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) EXPOSE TAMMANY RACKETEERING AT ELECTION RALLY All Class Conscious Workers Should Act As Red Watchers The final Red Election Rally will be held by the New York District of the Communist Party on Thurs- day evening, October 29, at Webster Hall to expose the Tammany-Sea- bury investigation and particularly the role of the Socialist Party which is the henchman of the bosses poli- tical parties. Workers in shop, fac- tory, union and fraternal organize- tions are urged to mobilize the work- ers to pack the meeting at Webster Hall to hear I. Amter, Communist candidate for President in the Boro of Manhattan, and J. Louts Engdahl, Communist candidate for Congress, who will be among the speakers. The meeting will be a rallying call for the workers of New York to rally for a record-breaking vote this year for the Communist Party. ‘There will be no admission charged in order to make it possible parti- |cularly for the unemployed workers to hear the Communist Party pro- gram of struggle, which does not